Off to a flying start

Not really...

We boarded, but then waited for an hour and a half whilst the engineers worked on fixing a technical issue...
Tip for Singapore airlines:  don't tell your passengers that.  Tell them we are cueing for take off or waiting for a missing passenger or something.  Or say nothing at all.  At that point, I was glad to have paid attention to the safely video.

Anyhow, there was no need to panic and prepare a plan for rehoming our animals in the end.  We landed safely at Changi.  Even with the 2 hour delay, we still had 7 hours to kill, so we visited the butterfly garden.  The garden lived up to its' name.  We saw 1 butterfly...

Other highlights include:
- finally got to see Frozen.  I've been meaning to sit down to watch it after all my mum friends said how good it was.
- we got to enjoy business class services, like white tablecloths, port dumpling noodle soup, short ribs and belgian waffles accompanied by proper silverware, not to mention the extra leg room:

 But, like they say, for every up, there is always a down.  Our down is sitting at a small regional airport in Dusseldorf waiting to board a flight in 6 hours' time.  We can't check in for another 4 hours, and the only source of entertainment is a small cafe selling overpriced sandwiches and ordinary coffee (probably, though we haven't tasted it yet).  Mind you...we've left home 34 hours ago, so would kill for shower right now.